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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






2. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






3. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






4. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






5. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






6. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






7. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






8. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






9. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






10. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






11. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






12. Ability to understand and express spoken language






13. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






14. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






15. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






16. Academic Language Therapy Association






17. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






18. r-controlled syllable






19. Open syllable






20. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






21. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






22. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






23. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






24. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






25. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






26. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






27. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






28. Individual Educational Plan






29. Final stable syllable

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30. Multisensory Structured Language






31. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






32. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






33. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






34. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






35. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






36. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






37. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






38. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






39. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






40. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






41. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






42. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






43. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






44. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






45. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






46. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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47. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






48. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






49. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






50. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.